Your information may be shared with other NBCUniversal businesses and used to better tailor our services and advertising to you. For more details about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. If you are located outside of the U.S., your information may be transferred to, processed and used in the U.S.

News/

CTRL-C or CMD-C, then press Enter.Click/tap elsewhere to exit, or press ESC.

Twitter

For Peter Mayhew, it was an "Imperial entanglement" of the TSA sort.

The British actor famed for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars films was flying from Denver last week back to his home planet of Kashyyk in Texas when he ended up having a run-in with airport security who—acting like storm troopers, apparently —tried to confiscate his lightsaber-appearing cane.

"@AmericanAir won't lalow me through the airport with me cane! Can I get a retweet?" he vented Monday morning via his official Twitter page, PeterMayhew@TheWookieeRoars.

Shortly after he sent the tweet, the 69-year-old Mayhew quickly clarified, "@tsa rather…Though after I tweeted they gave it back :)"

The 7-foot-3-inch thespian, who was in town for Denver's Comic Con, went about his merry way after airport security took Han Solo's advice and "let the wookiee win," as one of his followers quipped later.

Your information may be shared with other NBCUniversal businesses and used to better tailor our services and advertising to you. For more details about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. If you are located outside of the U.S., your information may be transferred to, processed and used in the U.S.